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. 1989 Jun;102(3):485-92.
doi: 10.1017/s095026880003020x.

Microbial organisms carried by brown-banded cockroaches in relation to their spatial distribution in a hospital

A Le Guyader  1 , C Rivault, J Chaperon
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Microbial organisms carried by brown-banded cockroaches in relation to their spatial distribution in a hospital

A Le Guyader et al. Epidemiol Infect. 1989 Jun.

Abstract

A simultaneous study of cockroach (Supella supellectilium) distribution and of associated carried bacterial flora has been made in the main hospital in Rennes (France). Wild cockroaches carry a high number of bacterial species that can be related to the normal environmental flora and a contaminant flora acquired from particular environments. The diversity of carried bacterial species reveals a proximity factor between continguous floors of the building which leads us to suppose that cockroaches are able to forage from one floor to the other.

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